Reason Quotes
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In the world of President Trump, we really want people who aren't going to lie. We want people who can sit in front of a congressional committee for hours and, however mad they may make us, never give us reason to doubt that they are telling the truth as they see it.
Benjamin Wittes
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Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.
William Arthur Ward
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I'm a recognizable person and some people feel the need for some reason to take me to task. You're really messing with the wrong person on that one.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas More
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Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.
Tom Hollander
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We must reason in natural philosophy not from what we hope, or even expect, but from what we perceive.
Humphry Davy
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The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.
Thomas Sowell
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Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.
Michael Caine
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To me, chocolate was the sole reason we on this earth.
Esi Edugyan
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The reason why you'll never be successful, is because you procrastinate.
Eric Thomas
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
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There's a reason the Chinese government is very concerned about Ai Weiwei. It's because he has all of these ingredients in his life that allow him to attract enormous attention across a very broad spectrum of the population.
Evan Osnos
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I would, therefore, say that for no reason whatsoever, except in self-defense, should one think of killing any animal.
Morarji Desai
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The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain.
Wendy Wasserstein
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If one's careful study of the facts shows that the Catholic Church is correct about Jesus-his life, teachings, death, and Resurrection-then why not give the Church the benefit of the doubt and carefully study her reasons for rejecting contraception, homosexual acts, and women's ordination?
Carl E. Olson
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“Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.”
Anne Royall
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Many a time freedom has been rolled back - and always for the same sorry reason: fear.
Molly Ivins
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There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.
Sherman Alexie
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Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.
William Penn
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Virtue is nothing else than right reason
Seneca the Younger
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He who harms living beings is, for that reason, not an ariya (a Noble One); he who does not harm any living being is called an ariya.
Gautama Buddha
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Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.
Sarah Dessen
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And not to mean that I think I'm some special person, but I think we're all here for a very specific reason and once you figure out what that is then you're on the right track and we're all on the ride together.
Renee O'Connor
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There is a reason and not a reason for everything.
James Cook